Changed my look to the 'Mean guy from The Company who convinces you there're no aliens on earth and all UFO's are just weather balloons' look :-)
Jonathan Maxwell Reeves: Actor, director and producer in Antwerpen, Belgium.
From Belgium With Love...
I'am a Belgian (you know that tiny little country somewhere in the middle between Iceland and Italy, well known for its beer, sprouts, chocolates, waffels and a statue of a peeing boy) Almost 4 years on Stage 32 now and I call myself sometimes a 'creative centipede'. I was trained as an actor (more...
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Never been there, but it's one of those (many) things on my bucket list. Traveling trough the USA by bus or with the train - but I heard trains are a very expensive way of traveling in the USA - to ex...
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FBI Click - The Shortest Movie In The World
FBI Click is (probably) the shortest movie in the world...at least the shortest one with a dialogue and a story. The story is about a weird guy, with an extremely long nose, wearing Ray-Ban glasses from the 80's. The guy is dressed up as an FBI agent. When he turns to the camera something really strange happens... SOME FACTS ABOUT FBI CLICK The duration of the movie is 10 seconds INCLUDING main title and end title. It took exactly 7 minutes and 12 seconds to shoot. 16 takes were made (mostly due traffic sounds and even an airplane flying over as usual). The budget was 0.00$. FBI Click has one line of dialogue played by 1 actor. The actor's nose is not really that long, it's made from latex. The movie was produced by 1 producer. There was 1 camera operator. It was edited in less than 10 minutes It took less than 30 seconds to come up with the idea, and the screenplay was written in 10 seconds. There's no music, because that was way too expensive concerning copyrights. There's one sound effect included...try to find it. 1 animal was harmed during filming...a bloody mosquito. Wrong time, wrong place ! The character appearing in this work is fictitious. Any resemblance to a real person, living or dead, is purely coincidental. (besides they wont let you in at the FBI Academy with such a big nose ! ) THE TRUTH ABOUT FBI CLICK In fact FBI Click is not made with the intention to be a movie. NO ! FBI Click is a public statement ! As a creative person I have so many ideas for movies, tv series, dozens of screenplays, a showcase with more than 45 television formats, but whenever I talk with a producer (if I can get as far as his or her office) it's always the same story. There's no money to produce your work or they say 'who are you, we never heard of you.' (Meaning : You're not famous enough) Fortunately we have this great invention called YouTube ! A true playgarden for creative people. A place where everybody can show the world what he or she can create. Thank you Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim to come up with this great platform. You guys have earned your chair in heaven (and billions of dollars too, but that's a detail) So many of us are working very hard to write a brilliant screenplay, they search for great actors to play the parts, they're filming for days sometimes in hard and dangerous conditions. It takes nights to edit everything, to add the right music but then finally after weeks of hard work you can upload that masterpiece...just to see that a few weeks later your masterpiece has been seen by less than 100 people. People on YouTube don't want to see quality. They want to see people falling from stairs or buildings, car crashes, stupid pranks, video's of people talking to their cat or dog, people who complain for a full 15 minutes about everything that happened to them today or even worse people who start singing or dancing while they absolutely can't sing or dance. The rule on YouTube today is : The more stupid, the more views. Thousands or even millions in just a few days time. So with FBI Click I decided to give the YouTube audience what they want...something really stupid ! Let's consider FBI Click an experiment too. Two options. 1) FBI Click gets 1 million views in just a week time and/or 5 million views or more in less than a month. That proves I'am right. People on YouTube only want to see stupid things, quality is not or less imporant. Stupid things are scoring, creative things don't. In the case FBI Click gets 1 million views in less than a week, I'll make a sequel, FBI Click II : The return of Clickman. If FBI Click reaches 5 million or more views in less than a month...I'll ask Peter Jackson to make a trilogy of it... 2) If FBI Click gets less than 100 views it's means I'am completely wrong. I really hope so, because that means there's still hope for all the creative people among us. Thank you for reading and of course for watching FBI click, the shortest movie in the world, and one hell of a public statement !
Posting Scripts
Fellow scribes... I'm curious. Why do so few screenwriters choose to post loglines here, but no scripts?
Y, al final, ellos sabrán a lo que se merecen.
Ken, USCO costs $35 and offers far more protection. http://www.copyright.gov/eco/index.html http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html...
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Rebecca Ann Dowty
- 11 years ago
I'm new to Stage 32, but I just posted a TV sitcom pilot and a Bible Story Epic that a director asked me to write to be shot in the vein of "300" called Samson & Delilah to my wall. Is there another s...
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You might be stretching it. Story is the most important factor, but length is important to anyone who makes a living reading other writers' work. I can't imagine many producers would want to finance a script that long. Think of the shooting schedule. I've never even read a thousand page novel and fi...
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This is why you never should give up as actor/screenwriter/director or whatever : http://distractify.com/people/famous-people-rejection-letters/
It's always hard to predict. As Belgian I can say we do have a nomination this year for foreign movie with 'The Broken Circle Breakdown', but I was a bit disappointed in the movie. Good acting, but very bad script in my opinion. The storyline jumps from past to present the whole time long but in a w...
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I really don't think the average age of the Academy members is 65. There are way too many up-and-comers for that to be the case. However, I did check and the median age is 60 (not necessarily the same...
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14 correct already, and still 7 to go (if I count good) but I bet there're better players over here at stage 32 :-)
Jonathan Maxwell Reeves
- 11 years ago
Okay 16 correct as final result, that's no prize I guess but let's hope I'll be in the top 100 of the Stage 32 users :-)
I only got 9 but Gravity made it easy for me, its was one of the only ones I got to see. :-)
Well, what was your final score? Mine was 20/24. I missed the Short Animated, and Short Live Action, Makeup & Hair, and Costume Design. 8/8 on the "Big 8"! ;-)
Only 16, but I was sure Gravity would be the big winner. Bad luck for Scorsese as usual and I don't understand why Tom Hanks didn't got a nomination for Captain Phillips. I saw that movie 2 days ago, and he really deserved a nomination for his part.
- Gravity did very well, but "12 Years" was a very powerful movie also. Sandra Bullock was the only actor nominated from Gravity, and it may be a year or two before Hollywood sheds its rom-com image of
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for connecting!
Hello everybody I've been 'away' for a while and I didn't logged into my Stage 32 account for more than a year due some personal problems in my life. I also had to put the project 'The Stupidest Joke' on hold because I'am currently going back to school. The so called second-chance school will give m...
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I have an actual Marketing company that uses mainly Google adwords.When you are ready I can help my basic package start at $995.00. For more information visit www.edsvideomarketing.com...
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Hello! I am a professional film composer and sound designer, looking for some new exciting projects here Creating unique soundtracks! Able to write fast and communicate via Skype Welcome to my website (you can listen to some examples there) www.alexander-music.com...
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Hi Jonathan! I know you posted this a while back but I'd love to get involved. I'm English with a neutral accent but can do loads of voices, accents etc. Listen to my reel on my page to give you an idea...
Hi Jonathan... I'm currently based just over the border in NL... heard about your requirement. I'm a full-time VO with plenty of experience in every area of the voice industry. I'd be interested to hear more about your project. Nick
Shortcutz Amsterdam. If you are a film related or just an enthusiastic about short movies this is the place to be. Starting in January 2013 the venue that will revolutionize the short movies in Amsterdam. Send to us your short movies. It's free to apply. Each film must have a strong relevance to the...
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I'd love to be a part of your voiceover project, hit me up
Hello Jonathan, I work both in front of and behind the camera as an 2ndAD and as an actor. My first professional job was as an on-air radio persoanlity. I would love to speak with you more about the specifics and particulars for which you are looking. Keep me posted. Let me know if I can help in any way, any way at all!
r u looking 4 voice overs ?
Voice-talents wanted for new project
Currently looking for some voice-talents concerning a brand new animation concept. More info can be found on my projects page. Look for TSJ - The Stupidest Joke.
Hey Jonathan. Still looking for voices? You can check out my demos on my profile, or at www.jimfeldman.us.
Jonathan... really enjoyed watching the Death clip, you are great.... thanks for sharing.
Steve Stephens
- 11 years ago
Greetings: I am interested in your animation voice talent roles. My resume, photos, sample audios are on my Actors Access link http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/stevestephens or review my Stage 32 profi...
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Hi there! My name is Daniel Buhr and I am a composer/songwriter from sweden. I just want to show you my name and get in touch with film workers all around the world. I write special made music for your feature film,shortfilm, commercial,reality show, special made songs , documentary, and other kinds...
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